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On 04/04/2011 11:42 AM, Jean-Yves Nief wrote:
> hello Adrian,
Hi!

> I have done that in the past. I used xrdcp instead of scp for
> performance reasons, I had to move bunch of 20 TBs from the old servers
> to the new ones (done in more than a day, I had two gigabit network
> interfaces on the servers), it would have been way too slow with scp.
thanks for info! could you give more details? i my case (ALICE) i have 
to keep a certain structure of files .. did you copied to an directory 
out of normal structure to be served or just copied files in the same 
directory structure ?

Thanks!
Adrian

> cheers,
> JY
>
> Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
>> Hi! Is there a possibility for mirroring data between data servers?
>> I ask because we want to upgrade an xrootd server .. is it enough to
>> scp 4TiB between servers? is it safe and consistent (from the
>> redirector view)?
>>
>> On a side note i will take the opportunity to ask other things :)
>> 1. Is there a way to benchmark the dataservers from the point of view
>> of xrootd? something like running a command on redirector and
>> benchmarking a given server or all? (for tuning purposes and also
>> could be used for developer tests?)
>>
>> 2. related to 1. are any of xrootd team aware of
>> http://twiki.mwt2.org/bin/view/ITB/UltraLightKernel ? are there any
>> (up to date) recommendations based on this guys work?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Adrian